Inhibitions Quotes

“To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future. And we need freedom (or, at least, the illusion of freedom) to get beyond ourselves, whether with telescopes and microscopes and our ever-burgeoning technology, or in states of mind that allow us to travel to other worlds, to rise above our immediate surroundings.

We may seek, too, a relaxing of inhibitions that makes it easier to bond with each other, or transports that make our consciousness of time and mortality easier to bear. We seek a holiday from our inner and outer restrictions, a more intense sense of the here and now, the beauty and value of the world we live in.”
― Oliver Sacks

“Sex: In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.”
― Marlene Dietrich, Marlene Dietrich's ABC

“Neighborship is a universal dialectic phenomenon. Good neighborship has a contingent status since it may procure either balance, trust and peace of mind or entail limits, barriers, and fences that can be a protection or conjure up feelings of exclusion, creating inhibitions and frustrations.( "Beware of the neighbor" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“It doesn’t matter if I’m off the beat. It doesn’t matter if I’m snapping to the rhythm. It doesn’t matter if I look like a complete goon when I dance. It is my dance. It is my moment. It is mine. And dance I will. Try and stop me. You’ll probably get kicked in the face.”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and soul-crushing inadequacy. And that’s on a good day."

[Academy Award ceremony, March 2, 2014]”
― Robert De Niro

“Alcohol lowered inhibitions. It didn't create impulses that weren't there.”
― Chelsea Scott

“Like a thief, the image of her taut, well-formed body crept into his mind next. His hair swept backwards, shot up like long needles in the rush of the air and his thoughts grew bolder. He marveled how beautifully her body arched as she stood and gave commands. Vishwakarma, the god of all craftsmen, in an exalting moment had threaded a wire through it to give it that elegant curve. From that instant, the memories of a wife, of dear daughters waiting back in the village seemed hazy as in a dream. Inhibitions became soft barriers. He remembered the gestures of Chanda Bai’s two hands as she talked; her palms like delicate seashells; her elegant fingers. Flashes of her jewel studded ears, another pair of shells; and her long hair lovingly braided by her servants with thick strands of white and yellow jasmine flowers interlaced in them. He wanted to caress those flowers with his finger.”
― Mukta Singh-Zocchi, The Thugs & a Courtesan

“Press conference [on the movie Carrington] yielded the usual crop of daftness. I've been asked if I related personally to Carrington's tortured relationship with sex and replied that no, not really, I'd had a very pleasant time since I was fifteen. This elicited very disapproving copy from the Brits ... No wonder people think we don't have sex in England.”
― Emma Thompson, The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

“If I want to spend my life unpacking my life, why am I always collecting boxes?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If it wets your whistle, blow it.”
― T.F. Hodge

“As a kid I used to sit on this muscular branch in the old apple tree. And the branch was high enough to make you feel like you were above the earth, but low enough to make you feel that the fall wouldn’t kill you. And it wasn’t until I was adult that I realized that the fear of heights is in reality the fear of the fall. And because that’s the case, we rarely get into the treetops.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, LPC

“Total expression happens when you let go of everything including your inhibitions. So I encourage you to play, dance, and cook. Playing to have fun, not win.”
― Raju Ramanathan, Souls from Mercury: Chakra Magic: Empowering Relationships

“It was the first time I had let go of my inhibitions in aeons. She had the key to the cage of propriety in which I had imprisoned myself. I was introduced to a lifestyle of decadence.”
― Ayshen Irfan, The Fire Within My Heart

“She had an internal battle between letting go and holding on to tradition.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“It cannot be evil to strip away superstitions, prejudices and inhibitions when they stand in the way of harmless physical pleasures, but Sade compulsively develops his narrative to culminate in evil-doing that cannot fail to alienate his readers.”
― Ronald Hayman, De Sade: A Critical Biography

“You are the limiting factor of your sensuality.”
― Lebo Grand

“For most adults, inhibitions are usually only jettisoned under the influence of alcohol; that age-old social lubricant can give you enough confidence to dance, for example, at a family wedding with people you’d ordinarily feel uncomfortable tying your shoes around.”
― Jay Honeycomb

“Clothes will always hide our inhibitions.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Inhibitions inhibit creativity.”
― Tarang Sinha